Limit on what Safari allows downloadable?

I do a lot of podcast & mp3 radio downloading from websites that are avaiable through iTunes. But I've noticed a couple of things (1) I'm only able to download 4 files at a time no matter what there size is. (2) when downloading 4 files each tranfers roughly at 25kb per sec, but when one of them finishes the other 3 remain at a transfer rate of 25kb. Why wouldn't this change (increase)? Is this a Safari issue? Is there a setting that I'm overlooking?
Thanks

It's something I've always experienced with large mp3 downloads (radio show-podcasts that exceed 1 hour). All my small song downloads are through iTunes, and I've never tried to download more than one software app at a time.
I'm going to run a couple of tests on it I've got some ideas. Then maybe I'll repost if I can't figure it out.
I never really thought of it being an ISP issue, so I'm thankful for that suggestion. Though I've have expreienced it with at least 2 different broadband ISP's, but they were both 500kbps packages so that doesn't necessarily mean it's not an ISP issue.
But as far as you know there shouldn't be anything within OSX or Safari which would be responsible for this?
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